Technology Assessment Reports Created by ICSI

-Acupuncture for chronic osteoarthritis pain, headache, and low back pain

- Acupuncture for treatment of chemical dependency

- Antiviral therapy for chronic hepatitis C

- Assisted reproductive technologies

- Bilateral prophylactic mastectomy for the prevention of breast cancer

- Botulinum toxin therapy

- Cardiac rehabilitation

- Case management for chronic illness, the frail elderly, and acute myocardial infarction

- Cochlear implants

- Computed tomography for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism

- Densitometry as a screening tool for osteoporosis in women

- Dorsal rhizotomy for spasticity

- Electrical stimulation for non-union of a fracture

- EEG monitoring during carotid artery surgery

- Electron-beam computed tomography for coronary artery disease

- Excimer laser use in ophthalmology

- Gastric restrictive surgery for morbid obesity

- Genetic screening for breast cancer

- High-dose chemotherapy with autologous stem cell support for the treatment of breast cancer

- High-dose chemotherapy with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for treatment of multiple myeloma

- High-frequency chest compression devices for cystic fibrosis patients

- Home uterine activity monitoring for detection of pre-term labor

- Image directed biopsies of breast lesions

- Interferon Beta-1B for treatment of multiple sclerosis

- Intrathecal baclofen infusion for controlling spasticity and spasms

- Intravenous immune gamma globulin for treatment of neurological conditions

- Lung volume reduction surgery for emphysema

- Lung transplants

- Lymphatic mapping with sentinel lymph node biopsy for breast cancer

- Magnetic resonance angiography for venous sinus thrombosis, intracranial atherosclerosis, intracranial aneurysms, carotid artery atherosclerosis, and carotid or vertebral artery -dissection

- Microwave thermotherapy for benign prostatic hypertrophy

- Minimally invasive direct vision coronary artery bypass grafting

- Oral devices for treatment of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome

- Pancreas transplants

- PET and SPECT scans for the evaluation for epileptic patients

- Photodynamic therapy for head and neck, tracheobronchial, and esophageal cancer

- Prenatal ultrasound as a screening test

- PSA as a screening test for prostate cancer

- Pulmonary rehabilitation for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

- Screening for the factor V R506Q (Leiden) mutation prior to oral contraceptive prescription

- Screening tests

- Small bowel transplantation

- Stereotactic radioneurosurgery for brain lesions

- Tissue-type plasminogen activator for acute ischemic stroke

- Transjugular intrahepatic porto-systemic shunts

- Tympanic membrane thermometry

Source: ICSI, Bloomington, MN.